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      04-05-2021, 11:13 PM   #15
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Thanks for the reply @Kick 6 Any clinical study would do. Any health benefit will do equally as well. I wrote the OP using the word "multivitamin" but I should probably have used the word "vitamins".

The replies have been helpful. Any references to studies done that point to use of vitamins or dietary supplements to avoid or improve an unwanted health condition will be appreciated.

Summarizing what I am reading in the posts: vitamins have not been clinically found to help.
If you look at most studies on multivitamins, it shows that they don't have much benefit. These studies are often a few years to up to a decade in length. Longer vitamin studies often show different outcomes and show a positive benefit. I'll be the first to state that there is often more to the story. In this reference, it shows what I am talking about. Long story short, if you want to prevent or decrease colon cancer, stop eating meat. Eating sulfur laden methionine with saturated fat creates a situation that promotes it.
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/abs/...99810010-00002

To expound on the OP's topic, the reason I believe the long term studies show a different outcome is because of the age of the participants. As we age, we suffer from nutrient depletion, epigenetic shifts, and immune function down regulation that come from microbiome and environmental changes. The alteration of GI bacteria quantity and quality reduce our available substrates for our biochemical pathways.

https://link.springer.com/article/10...00825110-00003

https://academic.oup.com/nutritionre...3/3/71/1815191

https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...40673674918741

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa055218

I just grabbed one of each but there are plenty of others. Taking multivitamins for some and expecting positive results is like trying to grow a garden on concrete. The environment is just not suitable and it's not going to happen.
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